Thanks, @balthasar_s ! I knew there was something else that failed when Time failed (this particular m*stard has happened before). Mrobots are behaving molpishly within their design parameters. imagebot , nopixbot , AUTOMOME , Mrorl's bOTTronic Bard, and company have all recently moved onto my bran...

Hi again, I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a reason why xkcd.com/1190 might be not working right now? It's interfering with imagebot 's monitoring of the epilogue frame pattern. It occurs to me that Time redirects to some other server, and there are some other OtherComics that also use a redire...

Add my OpenGL Gray-Scott explorer, which I hope to discuss in a future post Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. Darn, I had a feeling. As you say, simply having a browser with WebGL is not sufficient, it must also have some specific GL things. If you can get Firefox 61.0.1 (64-bit) for your ...

can anyone recognise the things from the first page of phys which I did not recognise? I have no idea what the beard guy is holding. There are of course two beard guys. The beard guy in the upper-right is holding motorcycle handlebars (one of which has a mirror?) attached to a small Earth with a ...

Well, last wip here, the river in back decided to be a little more seaish than it ought to be, and our whole back yard up to the first step out the back door was underwater. Back in the day, my family lived in a converted boathouse on a tidal estuary (I think you can see where this is going…). The ...

As always @ucim , your new AotC chapter is greatly apreciated. ( OTT:2651:18 ) I don't think you can get smaller than -Inf… Also The numbers you'll see should be below 300 most of the time. No, I meant that I was hoping they could be drawn in a smaller font, so that they take up less space on the sc...

( OTT:2649:2 ) Have you tried the newest one? […] With ctrl+D you can have a preview of the "score" it assigns to each platform. and an arrow showing where it wants to jump next. I got a version that fits that description, so yes (I think). I remember noticing how large those numbers were...

@balthasar_s I am very impressed by your MolpyUp automation. It got a score of 1738 on the first try (before you added the flags for extra lives ENHANCE ment). This frame is one where the dialogue struck me as odd. Wouldn't you say a campsite was deserted, or maybe vacant? I don't think I would say...

I don't know if I've ever posted a new OtherComic before. No, you hadn't up until now. But curiously and quite RELATED , you were the first person to ask for a list of all OtherComics that have been mentioned in this thread. You asked at OTT:432:2 and @Sciscitor replied in OTT:432:4 ; and that was ...

But these are not my words. They are yours. Read that post again. I quoted you there. Of course, you're right. I thought that sounded a little too familiar. Oh, well, at least there's this: Who is this guy, anyway? http://1190.bicyclesonthemoon.info/bsta/bsta-000210.png Who he is? Well, this guy is...

I'll give you something else to think about. Those are good things to think about. Remember frame 181 ? / […] / Now let's go back to 167 We are looking at a story (in cartoon form) involving some nice folks who have encountered a gate, and a building (which previously was a hole in the ground). At ...

(Breathing a sigh of relief, that the NP2701 reference managed to be ONGed before we actually got to the real NP2701. Not that I have anything specific planned as such, but, I was thinking my story would get out well ahead of this point and as I have kept needing to focus on work and postpone my bOT...

All right, so, BSTA fans, we have a bit of a puzzle maybe. I'm sure we all recognize the PSAL (Person Sitting At Laptop) as MFBB (My Fellow Botbuilder Balthasar_s). We have a reference to 2016-10-31. If you check the AotT (Archives of the Thread) you'll see that MFBB posted at 2016-10-20 ( OTT:2526:...

I like the new Molpy UP! even better. For some unknown reason, on my machine it thinks the "CTRL" key is always being pressed, regardless of reality. That makes the speed adjustment not work (and makes the "debugging/cheating" stuff easier to access). I hacked the code a bit to...

Using sudo with pip install isn't best practice. […] I know about virtualenv, that's how I access Python 3, but I need the standard Python to be in the standard place on my system, for long-term stability. sudo is just fine. On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, just doing pip install without sudo complains: OSEr...

Thank you @GnomeAnne ! I remembered being able to enter four words last week. Given your comments about IP address and VPN, I guess it's because I was using my mobile semi-organised sand and it switched itself from 3G to Wifi (or vice-versa, maybe?). I tried the fast-forward, rewind, stop and paus...

Was wondering if the NP count to the start of Time on mrob's replay page should be in shortpix or longpix? It's in longpix at present, but Time will start off in shortpix of course.. Hi @Rakhal ! That's a good point. I think it depends on your perspective: If you imagine that you have "trave...

A brief reminder that you may use mrob.com/time/replay to view Time in real-time, as it were. Soon the "Time is about to start" screen will appear and then, 48 shortpix later at midnip Randall-Daylight-Time, we'll get Frame 1. As presently given it is best for big screens, but if anyone wo...

That's useful, thank you. I vaguely remember some mention of that. It happened in the middle of a roughly 28-day period during which I didn't post anything. I think probably I wasn't reading either. I found this post by @ggh . The trick of typing "hidden interface" into 2words does not s...

Where did you find Hebrew? There's a list of notable decipherment claims on Wikipedia . The Alberta folks are the last one in the list. [This isn't a Hebrew claim, it's a Turkic-family claim] Oh, I didn't know about Ardiç and Ardiç. I assumed that because they are from University of Alberta, it was...

[…] the Voynich Manuscript is actually getting translated! Sadly, no. The corpus that Hauer and Kondrak used (The UN's Universal Declaration on Human Rights ) is too small for this sort of task, and has a bias in that it concerns only one (albeit broadly applicable) subject. Worse, once you assume ...

Examine box content http://1190.bicyclesonthemoon.info/bsta/bsta-000204.png Some cassettes. WYSPA CZARNYCH MALIN : "Island of Black Raspberries" (or something close to that) …MAŁP : The only words I see (from the stems database here , and the 2012 list here , which has almost 700,000 w...

Is this photograph something that existed already, or do we now have proof (well, strong evidence at least. It could have been made in Photoshop rather than being a photograph of a real thing) that The Advent is taking at least some of these themself? Yes. :P Remember we already have this: (at OT...

Of course the snow-molpies have clothes, but they're made of the same colour pixels, so you can't tell. Oh that's adorable! :D Now I'm trying to think of how we could make a simple two-frame stop motion animation […] Exactly what I was thinking too… I really wanted to make all twelve (there are alwa...

[…] this other video also showed up. […] Edit: there's a real one . @Azule 's fireflies ( Zanclean Zodiac ) have also become real . (Yes, Intel again. They seem to be the company that likes to spend seaish amounts of money on this nerdy stuff.) […] Thick, heavy, good packing snow, great for making ...

Those who see the "brick" containing "3000" probably also see bricks in my posts. For example, there is probably a "brick" at the beginning of this line. If so, then perhaps you can't read Morobu 's Japanese stuff, like in this post ? For @balthasar_s I believe you'...

At the last IceCoffeeStarsSemenLavaSandCancer Olympics, Saltroping was played as a Demonstration sport . Teams riding on rafts competed to lasso flotsam (and sometimes each other) with ropes. The rules and scoring are very complex and the sport has a small, but wildly devoted following. The I ICSSLS...